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Friday saw Aston Villa swat Sporting CP and others aside and move in to sign Andrés García from Levante.

It’s fair A LOT is being said about this transfer in Saturday’s European newspapers, so it’s worth taking them one at a time.

Saturday’s edition of Marca reports Garcia is ‘leaving for Unai Emery’s side’. They say an agreement has been reached for ‘€7m in cash, €2.25m in variables and 15% of a future sale’. Levante rejected a offer from Sporting and ‘closed’ the player’s transfer to Aston Villa.

Levante EMV, a newspaper local to the club, reports García is moving to ‘the best league in the world’ with a ‘dizzying’ transfer to Aston Villa. They believe that move has been well earned after the 21-year-old became the best right-back in Spain’s second division.

Portuguese newspaper O Jogo concede Aston Villa ‘win the race’ for García and Sporting are going to have to return to the market again, having already seen Alberto Costa escape from their clutches to join Juventus. O Jogo believe it’s not just about money, with García preferring a move to the Premier League.

A Bola report: ‘Andrés García woke up thinking he would be a Sporting player and ended up as an Aston Villa reinforcement.’

They continue that he ‘went to bed one step away from being an Aston Villa player’, and explain he’s now going to have to repack his suitcase which they state will have been packed to suit Lisbon’s milder climate but will now need additional jumpers etc

Record report the influence of Unai Emery was decisive.